mindlessly
11
5.8
- adverb
- /ˈmaɪndləsli/
- Most of us want to spend hours and hours scrolling mindlessly on dating apps.
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Watch on YouTubeMost of us live mindlessly most of the time.
- Most of us live mindlessly most of the time.
- Time would be mindlessly allowed to fly by and be frittered away.
- What happened is you just, you no longer mindlessly snack.
- It's, I don't see you mindlessly scrolling much at all.
- But what we often do is we consume mindlessly.
- They're just mindlessly, cluelessly, uncomprehendingly doing their little thing.
- So you want to hydrate enough so that you are not eating mindlessly.
- I tell you what, as fun as this is, it is so hard to like stay awake when you're just mindlessly digging with a shovel.
- Like people have a certain amount of time every day to go spend on just mindlessly scrolling or do whatever they do.
- If anything, we're kind of going in the direction of deflation, which if we keep printing money mindlessly, isn't that inflation going to come at some point?
Examples
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I went to the kitchen and stood mindlessly in front of the stove for ten minutes.
Fiction book (2002) -
Bird trotted after him on its big flapping feet, mindlessly trampling anyone or anything in its path.
Fiction book (2002) -
Most of us live mindlessly most of the time.
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So number one was mindlessly taking the the first small step.
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I will not have my family mindlessly sitting around a telephone watching television all day.
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I fed the money back into the machine mindlessly until I lost it.
Fiction book (1996) -
I hate to think how many I'm mindlessly paying without even making much use of them.
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But you let them pass, knowing that you want only to act intentionally, not automatically, mindlessly.
Academic text (1999) -
We're either surfing on the Internet, texting on our cell phones, or staring mindlessly at a television set.
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I went to the kitchen and stood mindlessly in front of the stove for ten minutes.
Synonyms
35
4.0
Without thinking or knowing you do something
33
3.7
To act in a lazy way without a clear purpose
23
3.7
Without a clear purpose, direction, or plan
16
1.0
In a way that you do something without thinking or paying attention
14
8.1
In a cheerful, careless way that shows little concern
13
4.6
In a distracted way, as if your mind is somewhere else
4
6.0
In a way that has no good reason or purpose
4
6.4
In a way that shows you are not paying attention because your mind is somewhere else
4
4.3
In a way that has no purpose or use
3
4.9
Without thinking carefully or caring about others
3
5.8
In a way that shows no careful attention
2
4.8
In a blank way that shows no interest or thought
2
7.0
Speak or act without careful thought
2
8.4
To do something without thinking carefully first
1
6.5
Not noticing what happens around you
1
7.7
In a way that shows a person is lost in thought and not paying attention
1
8.4
Acts without thought or understanding
1
7.0
Acting without thinking
1
8.6
In a way that shows little thought or understanding
1
6.5
In a way that shows no attention to what is happening
1
7.1
Doing something without a clear aim or plan
1
9.9
In an unplanned way not on purpose
1
7.3
In a careless way without thinking
1
8.9
For no reason
Antonyms
How Thoughtful
270
3.7
33
3.7
8
3.0
3
4.9
11
5.8
1
6.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Mindlessly is made from the parts mind (meaning 'thought' or 'attention'), plus -less ('without') and -ly which makes it an adverb. So mindlessly means doing something 'without thought' or attention — the opposite of mindful and, like careless, it shows a lack of thinking while you act.